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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50458	Vita sana & longa the preservation of health and prolongation of life proposed and proved : in the due observance of remarkable præcautions, and daily practicable rules, relating to body and mind, compendiously abstracted from the institutions and law of nature / by E. Maynwaringe ...	Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?; White, Robert, 1645-1703.	1669 (1669)	Wing M1519; ESTC R41734	56,870	172

The causes of the abreviation of mans life will appear Why mans life is shortned if we compare the manner of our living now with that of the first Age of the World and from thence how every generation have worsted themselves by a degenerate condition of life unsutable to the institutions of Nature And since we must of necessity allow and admit of hereditary infirmities and traductive debilities of Nature we cannot but expect unless by great reformation of the injurious customs and vices of these latter Ages but that we and our posterity shall degenerate yet still into a worse sooner fading state of life Mans life likely to be yet shorter For as the principles of our Nature are more infirm tainted and debauched from our Parents and Progenitors then those of former Ages of more vigour soundness and integrity are likewise more propense and liable worse to be depraved and degenerate and consequently of shorter duration and continuance Now if we inquire into the condition and manner of living of the Antients comparing with the customs and fashion of this Age Different living now to that of former times we shall find so much difference and irregularity from the appointment and injunction of Nature that may give full satisfaction to the quaery and matter in hand In the infancy of the World man provided and sought after the necessary requisites for his Being and was contented with a competent subsistence which Nature did purely require but in process of time Man was not satisfied with the bare reparations and necessary props of Nature most wholesome and conservative of his Being but hunted after variety and excess to please and gratifie his sensitive Appetite Thus one Age taught another to be irregular and disordered and still dictated novel inventions to the succeeding Generation to fill up and perfect what their Predecessors had prompted and begun whose lives were not long enough to lay a compleat platform of debauched Nature but must transmit their ruining practices to the following Ages to immitate and compleat Hinc illaec lachrymae Thus and after this manner by such means is mans life beset with many cruciating maladies which have shortned the dayes of his abode here and of latter Ages acts but a short part upon the stage of the World And this is procured by the variety and excess in meat and drink Brevity of mans life how procured by unseasonable and immoderate sleeping and watching turning day into night and night into day by sluggish unwholesome ease instead of due exercise and motion or toyling unseasonably and wearing out the body when it requires natural rest and refreshment by living in unwholesome places sucking in noysome destructive Air preferring profit and by interests before health and long life indulging Venus too much by immoderate and too frequent repeated acts thereby enervating all the faculties dispiriting and wasting the body by wearing and fretting the mind with various passions changing from one excess to another and wracking the body with several disturbing moods and passionate humours by exhausting the strength in a prodigal expence of the vital stream with frequent and unnecessary Phlebotomies by infecting the body and stamping exotick impressions too frequently with the common virulent purgatives that alienate the crases or ferments of the parts and such like injurious Drugs not rightly corrected and ill prepared Medicines that bring detriment and damage to the body by their use To these may be added the injurious mannagement of Infants by careless or ignorant Nurses and fond Mothers greatly injuring their Children by a destructive indulgence and erroneous affectionate usage in the ordering and educating them who for the most part live not so long as others Having set forth how mans Life hath declined and shortned in the several Ages of the World and pointed at the chief procuring Causes of such abreviation and change which hereafter we shall prosecute more fully it remains to tell you how this evil may in part be remedied and something regained that hath been lost and is still upon the losing side except recovered by a more diligent and prudent course And here I must premise a few things before I come to the point prescribing the Rule to walk by and means for attaining long life All the Creatures have their definite times of duration allotted them by Nature some longer others a shorter tearm Creatures differ in their term of being and this from the principles of their composition seminality from whence they spring In the Mineral Family we find the longest durations being solid dense bodies of more simple natures and homogenious do preserve their Beings longest from ruine and dissolution Vegetables are of a shorter duration yet not all alike some preserve their beings hundreds of years as the Cedar and Oak Others continue but a few years some a year Amongst the sensitive Creatures we find that serveral species have their peculiar durations which in the common course of nature are observed to continue some a longer Age others a shorter The Mineral is slowest in rising to maturity and perfection but continues longest in that state The Vegetable in the generality is quickest in the ascent to the top of perfection but keeps not its station long some whereof fade and wither every year but renew their verdure again at the Spring until a few years hath spent that seminal power and fertile blooming virtue The Sensitive Creatures and perfect Animals are slower in their rise to perfection which having attained stay but a while in that full strength do gradually descend again decline and perish So that all living Creatures by nature have their risings and settings and definite times fixed for their growth and duration from their beginning they have a gradual ascent until they have attained the vigor and exaltation of their Natures and having gained the top of their perfection they stay not long there but gradually descend again and are degraded of the honour and perfection of their Natures and tend to their ruine and dissolution nor are the Creatures limited alike to the same duration but do extend and are shortned variously according to their Principles and Foundation of Being as Nature hath furnished them with a provision permanent and sutable for such a duration and subsistence Now of all the Creatures we find Man most uncertain in his being and continuance although the Age of Man be limited to sixty years and is most lyable to alteration and a perishing state upon these four accounts First Because Man derives from his Parents by a seminal propagation and inherits the Diseases of their vitious depraved Natures radicated in him to which his own enormous acts being added does multiply and heighten the corruption of his Nature hence the succeeding Generations becomes more degenerated infirm diseased and consequently of shorter duration then the former Secondly For that the structure of his body is the most wonderfully contrived of all the Creatures containes